Clifford Chance

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.07.19

* Can the outrage of strip searching a 4-year-old get the Supreme Court to rethink qualified immunity? Well, killing and torturing people hasn't done it so it's not clear why this would. [National Law Journal] * Clifford Chance is the latest firm to deliver a bodyblow to the billable hour. [Law.com] * Dahlia Lithwick lays out a case that Democrats can focus on impeaching Trump and winning in 2020 too that elides any attention to the ways that the former would likely significantly undermine the latter. [Slate] * Pepe's Revenge: The artist behind the cartoon that's become the emblem of white supremacy is headed to trial to assert his rights over the image -- specifically the rights of racist groups to sell the image on their own posters. [Courthouse News Service] * A look back at Ted Bundy's trial skills. [Esquire] * Jurors asked if schools can be "willfully ignorant" of recruiting violations. It's probably fair to point out that most are "willfully aware." [Law360] * Deloitte joins fellow accounting firms in dipping its toe into the U.S. legal industry. [American Lawyer] * In-house attorney loses age discrimination suit. [Corporate Counsel]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.02.19

* "I am managing partner Clifford Chance and I just need your help and bank account to move my book of business out of the country." [Legal Cheek] * Biglaw age discrimination suit moves forward. [New York Law Journal] * Teddy Cruz sues to challenge law to prevent the kind of campaign from doing the entirely shady thing his campaign wants to do. [Courthouse News Service] * Even GOP lawyers think killing Obamacare is a terrible idea. [Huffington Post] * Law school deans stepping down all over the place. [Law.com] * The Mueller investigation may be over, but we can still have fun playing "Guess the Mystery Subpoena!" [National Law Journal] * Kasowitz losing real estate partners but insists there's nothing to see here. [American Lawyer] * Racist algorithms in the crosshairs. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.30.18

* Trump Tweets out his demand that Chief Justice Roberts crack down on Judge Collyer for not using the FISA court to undermine the Russia probe. Did Trump do misspell Judge Collyer's name in the process? Oh you know by now that of course he did. [Reuters via Huffington Post] * No sooner did a jury actually convict a cop of killing an unarmed black teen, did they turn around and sentence him to less than even the defense attorneys dreamed of. [Courthouse News Service] * The SEC fined Moody's over poor controls, which seems about a decade too late, but whatever. [Corporate Counsel] * Is Rudy Giuliani using his relationship to the president to further his lobbying career? That would be really shocking for someone involved with this administration! [National Law Journal] * Eighth Circuit approves corporate discrimination efforts. [The Recorder] * FIFA convict compared to John McCain... I guess because they'll both be spending time in captivity? [NY Post] * Clifford Chance slapped with fine for discriminating against non-U.S. citizens. You can take the firm out of Rogers & Wells, but you can't take the Rogers & Wells out of the firm. Seriously though, this was just a misunderstanding of ITAR regulations. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.02.17

* Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, which took place last night in Las Vegas, Nevada. [New York Times] * "There’s only one prediction that’s entirely safe about the upcoming term. It will be momentous." The Supreme Court's October Term 2017 begins today, and it will be Justice Neil Gorsuch's first full term. The docket features issues like voting rights, religion and discrimination, workers' rights, and digital privacy, and Trump's DOJ has radically flipped its position from that of prior administrations in many of the cases, which hasn't happened in decades. [New York Times] * Jeffrey Toobin wonders, "How badly is Neil Gorsuch annoying the other Supreme Court justices?" Based on the junior justice's behavior thus far -- from his seemingly politicized appearances to his domination of oral arguments to his dissenting jab at Justice Kennedy -- the answer could very well be PRETTY BADLY. [New Yorker] * You may have grown up, but you're still a Toys “R” Us kid at heart, so you'll want to know how much these Biglaw firms are charging Geoffrey the Giraffe for their representation in the toy store's bankruptcy. Partners and of counsel are billing up to $1,745 per hour, and associates are billing up to $1,015 per hour. [Am Law Daily] * Biglaw salary wars are heating up across the pond, with Clifford Chance having recently decided to boost pay for newly qualified associates to £87,300 (~$116,933.99) a year in total compensation. Other firms like Freshfields and Linklaters have also instituted salary hikes, while Slaughter & May has frozen associate pay. [Law.com] * "This, all of this, allows me to prove my story is useful." Reginald Dwayne Betts, the Yale Law School graduate whose dreams of being able to practice law after passing the bar exam were deferred thanks to a decades-old felony carjacking conviction, was finally admitted to the Connecticut bar. Congratulations! [Hartford Courant]

By Staci Zaretsky